I´m sick of 63 years of Israeli occupation

I´m sick of The Wall*I´m sick of the checkpoints between Palestinian citiesI´m sick of illegal Israeli settlers and settlementsI´m sick of having the Hebrew language on my ID cardI´m sick of people not knowing anything about our historybut knowing so much about Jewish historyI´m sick of people ignoring the Palestinian Right of Returnand accepting the Jewish Law of ReturnI´m sick of the Oslo Agreement which no one herewanted in the first placeI´m sick of the Palestinian Authorityhaving zero authorityI´m sick of watching my father being humiliated at checkpointsby people my age and youngerI´m sick of my international friends having to lie aboutcoming to visit; being interrogated, stripsearchedand sometimes deported in the processI´m sick of people not understandingwhat "Occupation" isI´m sick of being scared all the timeI´m sick of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorderbeing a normal state of being here in PalestineI´m sick of how ineffective the UN has becomeI´m sick of International Humanitarian Lawnot applying to the State of IsraelI´m sick of how fighting for basic human rights for Palestinians or being critical of Israeli policy is so often labelled "anti-Semitic"I´m sick of the fact that everybody forgets I´m a SemiteI´m sick of hearing Israelis complain about discriminationwhen the State of Israel was founded on a principle of ethnic purityI´m sick of living in a timewhen racial profiling has become acceptableI´m sick of constantly being treated as a suspectI´m sick of how mainstream media portrays us and our situationI´m sick of the whole world caring about Gilad Shalitwhen there are more than 7000 Palestinians inside Israeli prisonsI´m sick of trying to defend myself, friends or countrymenand being labelled a terroristI´m sick of the fact that everywhere I goI can see The Wall, a settlement or Israeli soldier

I´m sick of

63

years

of Israeli occupation

*I try to find out who is the poet behind these moving words. In case you know, please let me know.